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Homemade Breakfast Sausage
With the recent events around the world and talk of food shortages I have changed my habits a bit here at my home. Doing our best to understand and adjust to an ever changing world around us. Normally...
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Canning Ham And Bean Soup
Another of my rainy week canning sessions using up some of my sales that I ran across this month already. Ham and white bean soup is one of our favorite soups. Add a sandwich or salad and another of...
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Beneficial Insects In The Garden
Just a heads up to all you gardeners out there. As you are doing that early spring clean up, pruning and all around gardening be aware of the beneficial insects out there. As I was pruning some winter...
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Canning Pulled Pork
In previous posts I wrote about finding a good sale at the small local owned community IGA on pork butt for $1.69 a pound and buying 20 pounds. This little store is about 10 minutes down the road from...
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Spring In The Garden 2022
above: Bees working the blueberry bloomsHappy May Day from here in my garden! April 15th is the average last frost date and right on schedule the flowers are emerging and the bees are humming. Such a...
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More Spring Garden 2022
Thursday morning cup of hot tea here as I listen to thunder rumble in the distance. Rain is forecasted for the next 2 days so I will put the garden away and concentrate on some housework and cooking....
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May Garden 2022
I am again drinking mint and lemon balm tea fresh from the garden. I plant my mint and lemon balm in large half barrels to keep it from becoming invasive and taking over my gardens. Sweet potato slips...
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Cleaning Out The Freezer
It's been a bit since I posted but I sure have been busy. Summer temperatures have finally gotten here with a few 90 degree days forecasted for next week. Other than that the days have been mild here...
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Canning Elderberry Pie Filling
The elderberries are blooming and loaded this year. In the most recent freezer clean out I thawed out some and canned some homemade elderberry pie filling. This should make room for the new crop in...
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Canning Elderberry Jam
Elderberry Jam( 4 half pints )4 cups crushed elderberries4 cups sugar1 tsp lemon juiceCombine partially crushed elderberries, lemon juice and sugar into a large thick bottomed pot and slowly heat to...
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Canning Gooseberry Pie Filling
With gooseberries hanging off the bushes my June fruit crop is gooseberries, plums, rhubarb, strawberries and black currants. Makes for a busy month to say the least. As my service berry/june berry...
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Freezing Twice Baked Potatoes
Temperatures are heating up here and I hate to turn on the oven and heat up the house. Now is the time of year that I get busy gardening and canning and such so this is the time of year that I like to...
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Making Plantain Salve
Every spring you will find me out in the yard and gardens picking the weed broadleaf plantain. This stuff makes the best salve I have ever found for bug bites and skin irritations. Gardening like we do...
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Still Here!
I have been quiet lately but wanted to touch base and let all of you know that all is well! O Wise One (aka my husband) has had an awful case of pneumonia. My days have not only been filled with...
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Royal Golden Watermelon
We all have things that we have had to learn to deal with and overcome in our lives. For me it is color blindness. One in every 12 men are color blind while one in every 200 women are color blind. The...
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Tomato Products
As the rest of the country anticipated a shortage of tomato products in our future according to the recent exploits of the media here I sit. Hip deep I tell you in nothing other than tomatoes. For...
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Sweet Potato Time
Sweet potatoes are a family favorite in our house. I have such fond memories of my father when I was a girl and walking into his workshop and he would put sweet potatoes into the oven that he kept his...
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Gooseberry Jam
Harvests are starting to slow down some. Yesterday I picked the first of the winter squash which is a butternut variety. I don't even know what variety as I first saved the seeds from a squash...
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Plentiful Harvests for Autumn
The days of sleeping at night with an open window under a snuggly quilt have returned. The leaves have started to trickle down again from the trees. I picked the first 6 of my butternut squash...
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Heavy Hitter Okra
Another overachiever in my garden this year has been the okra. I tried a new variety to me called Heavy Hitter from seeds I purchased 2 years ago from the farmer in Alabama that developed this okra....
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Dehydrating Mashed Sweet Potatoes
Other than just consuming my sweet potatoes baked this is one of our favorite ways to consume sweet potatoes other than maybe pie. I simply put the sweet potatoes in the oven and bake them. Then peel...
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Cocozelle Zucchini
Well we finally pulled up the zucchini before frost. There is too much of a good thing! My favorite variety of zucchini to grow is an old Italian heirloom called Cocozelle. This Italian heirloom was...
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